Books with author Kaori Watanabe

A brand-new holiday addition to the My First Taggies cloth book line! This soft, huggable Christmas book features actual jingle bells and the popular ribbon loops that babies love to touch and rub.Jingle bells, Jingle bellsJingle all the way!Read this popular Christmas song with your little one while they tug at the ever-popular Taggies tags, rattle a jingle bell sewn into the front cover of the book, and gaze at the sweet, soft illustrations.

The fun and simple problem-solving guide that took Japan by stormKen Watanabe originally wrote Problem Solving 101 for Japanese schoolchildren. His goal was to help shift the focus in Japanese education from memorization to critical thinking, by adapting some of the techniques he had learned as an elite McKinsey consultant. He was amazed to discover that adults were hungry for his fun and easy guide to problem solving and decision making. The book became a surprise Japanese bestseller, with more than 370,000 in print after six months. Now American businesspeople can also use it to master some powerful skills. Watanabe uses sample scenarios to illustrate his techniques, which include logic trees and matrixes. A rock band figures out how to drive up concert attendance. An aspiring animator budgets for a new computer purchase. Students decide which high school they will attend. Illustrated with diagrams and quirky drawings, the book is simple enough for a middleschooler to understand but sophisticated enough for business leaders to apply to their most challenging problems.

"Problem Solving 101" started out as a simple guide to teach Japanese schoolchildren critical thinking skills. But it quickly became an international bestseller for readers of all ages, thanks to the powerful effectiveness of Ken Watanabe's unique methods. Full of useful diagrams and quirky drawings, "Problem Solving 101" is packed with practical tools and techniques to train your brain to solve problems, create solutions and make faster, better decisions. Simple enough for a high school student to understand but sophisticated enough for CEOs to apply to their most challenging problems, "Problem Solving 101" has helped millions of people around the world to find successful solutions to even the toughest of problems. Once you've mastered the skills in this book, you'll wonder how you ever got by without them.

A brand-new holiday addition to the My First Taggies cloth book line! This soft, huggable Christmas book features actual jingle bells and the popular ribbon loops that babies love to touch and rub.Jingle bells, Jingle bellsJingle all the way!Read this popular Christmas song with your little one while they tug at the ever-popular Taggies tags, rattle a jingle bell sewn into the front cover of the book, and gaze at the sweet, soft illustrations.

Problem Solving 101 started out as a simple guide to teach Japanese schoolchildren critical thinking skills. But it quickly became an international bestseller for readers of all ages, thanks to the powerful effectiveness of Ken Watanabe's unique methods. Full of useful diagrams and quirky drawings, Problem Solving 101 is packed with practical tools and brain training techniques that will improve your problem-solving and decision-making ability, and enable you to find better solutions faster. Simple enough for a high school student to understand but sophisticated enough for CEOs to apply to their most challenging problems, Problem Solving 101 has helped millions of people around the world to find successful solutions to even the toughest of problems. Once you've mastered the problem-solving skills in this book, you'll wonder how you ever got by without them.